I added this to monobook.php for creating additional sidebar-blocks: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Navigation_bar#Customizing_monobook.php
+ <div class="portlet" id="p-navn"> + <h5><?php $this->msg('navigation') ?></h5> + <div class="pBody"> + <?php $this->msgWiki( 'AnotherMenu' ) ?> + </div> + </div>
Are there any CONs against this? Imho the solution above is able to use more complicated sidebar-construction than MediaWiki:Sidebar doas
HeinzJ